What did you do in the reloading room today?

Fire forming the “poor man’s magnum” 8mm/338 cases today that were made from 7 mm Remington magnum cases.
I have another 50 cases to shoot with 154 grain Turk bullets out of a little over 200 cases. Whoever ends up with this rifle after I am gone, will at least have ammo for this IMG_8128.jpeg
 
Fire forming the “poor man’s magnum” 8mm/338 cases today that were made from 7 mm Remington magnum cases.
I have another 50 cases to shoot with 154 grain Turk bullets out of a little over 200 cases. Whoever ends up with this rifle after I am gone, will at least have ammo for this wildcat.
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This is a unique chambering. What bullets and powder do you typically hunt with? I’m sure this is a very lethal combination
 
This is a unique chambering. What bullets and powder do you typically hunt with? I’m sure this is a very lethal combination
The old timer I bought the rifle from long ago used a 236 grain Herters bullet for his Colorado elk hunts. I am using a 200 grain spear hot/cor for deer hunting but all I got is a dog in the woods so far the last couple years.
Powder is surplus 4831 and older CCI primers that came with the rifle.
 
Settled on a 108 load for the 6CM. Rehabbed the 40 cases from yesterday.

Reloaded 13. Need to run out and grab some more bullets and powder.
 
Annealed 50 Peterson 270 brass, body sized down with a 25-06 body die, uniformed primer pockets, uniformed/deburred flash holes, cleaned, trimmed to 2.529 (my 25-06 chamber length), Lee collet to .002 neck tension

Next is wasting some extremely long 129g Hammer bullets that were chaff in a trade deal for fireforming. They are so long, there should be no problem jamming them into the lands.
 
Decapped ~200 pieces of once fired 6.5creed brass and tumbled. There is still a little gunk in the primer pockets so im going to run them through again for 3 hours so i can get them ready to trade/sell.
 
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